Pressure cooker

[cjensema]

Has anyone tried modifying a pressure cooker to make a vacuum chamber for stabilizing handle materials?

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Carl

 

[Jake Evans]

I was thinking about one of those soft drink syrup/carbonated water tanks, they already have available fittings and stuff that would be easy to adapt to, just have to make sure its really clean. ANy input on that?

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[mikeS]

How much vaccum pressure do you need for this operation? Would a pyrex mixing bowl covered with a 1/2 steel plate ,neoprene for the gasket work? Maybe check the science sites for vaccume chambers, Burden's Surplus has several pumps in their catalog.

 

[Bruce Bump]

What kind of liquid or oil,urathane,glue,varnish,wax,epoxy or lizzard guts works for stabbilizing even if I had a chamber? Bruce
"Life is short, Make Knives"

 

[Ben E Hana]

I run a small orthodontic lab and process acrylic on a daily basis.All of my work is cured in a modified pressure cooker at about 23psi.My setup also contains a heating element set to about 120 degrees.Great Lakes orthodontic supplies carries a lot of different acrylics and pressure pots.

 

[Ben E Hana]

oops I should have read the original post better.You want to cure under vacuum not pressure.my bad
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